Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage issued Circular LGSM/01/2021 in February 2021 to chief executives and directors of planning which provided instructions around developing zones for local authorities. Action 80 of the national Climate Action Plan 2021 required each local authority to integrate the development of its decarbonisation zone into its local authority climate action plan. Accordingly each local authority will take forward its decarbonisation zone as a component of its local authority climate action plan. At this point responsibility for the decarbonisation zone process was transferred from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

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